Presidential support squadron, Marine Helicopter Squadron (HMX) 1, received the first of 12 Ospreys to be operated by the squadron in May 2013. The HMX-1 tilrotors will carry presidential support staff and news media representatives traveling with the President, but not the President himself.
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Shenandoah over Boston. With #6 engine removed from the rear of the control car, and particularly, with water recovery unit on #3 power car, this photograph must have been taken on July 3, 1925, en route to Bar Harbor.
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Corey Sumner, a San Francisco Maritime Enforcement specialist, conducts helicopter hoist training in the San Francisco Bay, Friday, June 20, 2014. The purpose of the training was to ensure Pluto is proficient in this deployment method. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Adam Stanton)
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Payoff --- Diver John Reaves of Sealab-II project, rewards porpoise Tuffy with a fish as they train together 80 feet down in the open ocean off Point Mugu, Calif. Tuffy will work with Reaves and other divers next month in experiments to see how a porpoise can assist man underwater. A snap hook is attached to Tuffys harness which enables him to carry messages and tools to the divers. Sealab-II, a joint effort of the Office of Naval Research and the Navys Special Projects Office, will subject divers to long periods of living and working underwater. Tuffy will join the Sealab-II team for about a week early in September. The experiments with Tuffy during Sealab-II is a project of the U.S. Naval Missile Test Center, Point Mugu, Calif. Scientists there are studying marine mammals in the hope of obtaining information which will enhance mans operations underwater. Photograph taken on 13 August 1965.
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The so-called black ships of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perrys two visits to Japan in 1852-54 were the symbols of what the outside world had to offer the Japanese as featured in this Japanese print from about 1861.
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In Spray Pattern by Navy reservist Herbert C. Hahn, the Allen M. Sumner or Gearing class destroyer was escorting a carrier during the Korean War. Hahn had been called to active duty and was assigned to the USS Boxer (CV-12) where his spare-time sketches of ship activities caught the notice of senior officers. He requested and was assigned duty as a combat artist.
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Perry Expedition to Japan 1852-1855:
In this lithograph by Sarony & Co., by artist W. HEINE E. BROWN, JR., DIREXT, we see the landing of Commordore Perry, officers & men of the squadron, to meet the Imperial Commissioners at Yoku-Hama, Japan, March 4, 1854.
Original in U.S. Navy Art Collection. (R.B. Griffin Collection)
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This striking illustration, created by John Philip Falter for one of his more than 300 recruiting posters during World War II, was derived from a Navy photograph taken in 1943 of WAVE Virginia L. Scott. She is operating a radiotelegraph key sending a message from the code room of the Radio School at Madison, Wisconsin. Falter (1910-1982) enlisted in the Navy, but was quickly promoted and continued his work that in civilian life eventually garnered him 129 covers of The Saturday Evening Post along with numerous illustrations in publications including McCalls, LIFE, Look, Good Housekeeping, and Cosmopolitan.
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